Florian Tschögl was one of the Righteous among the Nations, awarded from Yad Vashem.[1] In 1943, while serving in the Wehrmacht, Tschögl was ordered to guard captured Soviet soldiers in a prison camp in Moledeczno, Belarus. There he met the Jewish Arzichowski family, which had been denounced by Polish antisemites as plotting against German soldiers.
Tschögl resolved to save the family from deportation and death and denied the claims against them. From 1943 to 1944 he provided the family with food and supplies. When other soldiers tried to imprison one of the family's daughters, Sarah, Tschögl sheltered her in his house. The Arzichowskis survived the war.[2][3]
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- ^ Florian Tschögl – his activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem website; By Yad Vashem as "Righteous" honored Austrians Archived 2012-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Die Gerechten Österreichs (German)". Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2010-01-09.
- ^ Lexikon der Gerechten unter den Völkern: Deutsche und Österreicher, Band 1 von Israel Gutman, Daniel Fraenkel und Jakob Boru ISBN 3-89244-900-7
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